Re: Does Oracle and OpenVMS VAX have a future???

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<87055CC493AA8B18.ADA7670EAE0485D8.DB8CF185D4E408DA_at_library-proxy.airnews.n et> - "RYoung" <ryoung_at_summer.dbsol.com> writes:
:>
:>Many people are 'Unix' enamored....hec...I personally like Unix best as
:>well...HONEST!!!....but in a business setting, where dependabilty and long
:>term 'track record' counts a great deal, and where being down can cost you
:>$1M/minute (no joke on this one according to Citibank DBAs I have spoken
:>to), VMS still beats out all the Unix flavors. It is not the fastest, it is
:>not the easiest to work with, but its security and dependabilty have been
:>tuned over a period of 'umpteen' years. NT is too little and too new, Unix
:>too fragmented and too iffy at the security side of things for some of the
:>'high end' financial jobs where you are talking BIG BIG DOLLARS.
:>
:>Think of it this way....add up the number of times you NT and Unix boxes
:>have gone down in the last 2 years, and then figure the $1M dollar/minute
:>fee if they had been running Citibank. Then think of whose 'hide' managment
:>would take losses from....
:>
:>Douglas Scott <dsscott_at_gte.net> wrote in article
:><5kljdd$knc$1_at_news10.gte.net>...
:>> My DBA just got back from IOUW in Dallas and most of the people he
:>> talked to did not see much of a future for OpenVMS VAX and Oracle. I
:>> know that it took Oracle quite a long time to upgrade the RDBMS to 7.3
:>> and 8.x is coming out soon. I would like to know if other people think
:>> that Oracle on OpenVMS VAX is a dead end platform.
:>> --
:>>
:>> Douglas Scott
:>> dsscott_at_gte.net

I agree ! You won't see the latest technology flashing on OpenVMS, but that baby ( well, its no baby for sure) just keeps going !! I have a client running his business on OpenVMS and Rdb, no full-time DBA, no full-time system administrator. But that system is running for years with with extremely few crashes and very little DBA baby-sitting !

Compare that with another one running NT 3.51 with Oracle 7.1 ? and this last setup requires comparatively a lot of baby-sitting !

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